Posted by Dan Ewert : 2/24/2003 11:04:00 PM (Archive Link)
I was thinking recently about the anti-war protestors and how many left-leaning commentaries gushed about how the demonstrations harkened back to the days of Vietnam protests. No surprise… that was the last time protests were effective and doomsayers had any prescience. Where are all the bad things that were supposed to happen during or after the Cold War, Gulf War I, or Afghanistan? Where are the millions slaughtered? Where are the Muslim uprisings? They didn’t happen. Some like to call these folks Cassandra’s which is incorrect since the reverse is true. Cassandra made accurate predictions that nobody believed (that’s what you get for rebuffing Apollo!), these people, though, make false predictions that many believe.